Photo Gallery - Listing ID 6151760
- Price$3,600,000
- StatusActive
- Address1415 Mount Curve Avenue
- Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
- Bedrooms8
- Full Baths6
- Total Baths10
- Partial Baths4
- Acres0.610
- SqFt11,731
Arthur Ross Rogers, a lumber baron, commissioned the mansion’s construction which began in 1904. Architecture then paid homage to various precedents. Our baron built a neo-gothic home using Bedford Stone and trimmed its interior with exotic hardwoods
Arthur Ross Rogers, a lumber baron, commissioned the mansion’s construction which began in 1904. Architecture then paid homage to various precedents. Our baron built a neo-gothic home using Bedford Stone and trimmed its interior with exotic hardwoods
The first impression upon entry is jaw-dropping--the gleaming walnut floors, select mahogany paneling, prolific carvings and finally, the scale of the space---much more than a Hallway---hint at the wonders to be found within the four adjoining rooms
The kitchen, adjoining Butler’s Pantry and powder-room have been completely gutted. The space includes a huge island and octagonal informal eating area---almost 500 sq ft---the equivalent of many kitchen/family rooms found in current era designs
The first impression is visceral, the second is spiritual. The Stairway reflects the essence of the design’s historical connection to an era and its architecture. Every step inspires and pays tribute to the ascendancy of artisanry over the finite.
The home’s orientation on the site reflects the necessity of the horse-drawn era. Few sites on Lowry Hill enabled a sweeping circular drive with a covered entrance. Yesteryear’s impression and convenience are no less appreciated today.
The Home is One's Castle; a daily reminder at the transition from portico in through the double doored vestibule. The original servant's entrance is now the owners' everyday access when not using the back gate or garage tunnel.
This photo taken from the front door speaks for itself!
The well-designed entrance features a stairway to the owner's entrance, the main entrance into the vestibule and Great Hall and an archway to the side patio.
Lumber Baron Rogers laid out this house for grand entertaining—and certainly for effect. Guests then, knew they had ‘arrived’ upon entry into the vestibule. Guest now will be no less reminded that this place is extraordinarily special.
Upon entry, worldly visitors must question if such craftmanship can now be replicated. The combination of design, materials and artistry is a huge barrier---this home is one-of-a-kind. Ceiling height throughout the Main Floor is more than 10’
Opening first from the entry’s Great Hall is a wide-open parlor accentuated by the prolific, continual use of black walnut, the heirloom 'crotch-cut' mahogany throughout and then the octagonal corner that thematically repeats in other spaces.
A favorite room of the owner---a Library back in the day, now serves as a family gathering room. It leads to a sunroom which passes through to a formal Dining Room. The overall pattern offers a circular flow with no dead-end rooms or spaces
A sunroom that feels ‘sunny’ on the gloomiest of days, traffics with both the Library and the Dining Room. The classic use of leaded glass contrasts with the modernity of heated floors---which in fact, have been installed in many rooms of the house
The taste in this space: is it the aesthetic or the food? No matter, everything in this room, like the entire home, is exquisite. Even the pathway from kitchen through the Butler’s Pantry is a delight, assuring that every event will be memorable
There are no dead-end rooms, but if there’s one to choose for final repose it could be the sunroom with its leaded and stained glass, spiritual, back-to-nature theme, a to-die-for heated floor and an external doorway to the gardens beyond. R.I.P.
Perhaps the grandest of rooms is the Living Room, again a space perfectly scaled, suited for gatherings large or small, inviting and convivial---once one gets over the speechless minute or two it takes to admire the ceiling detail and plaster coving
Off the Living Room is an enclosed veranda that fronts the full span of the home with coffered ceilings, (wood/stone/tile) floors and a repeating set of windows with transoms that echo the exterior’s gothic revival archways
Usage of the enclosed veranda down through 55 degrees is comfortable (windows are thermo-pane). A patio was added on the east side that by-passes the Main entrance when desired. This space, like many, has been wired with modern 2-channel speakers
The side patio is accessed from the enclosed three-season porch and front entryway. Enhanced by planters and well- planned gardens. it is a delight for the senses.
The side patio walks to th front courtyard and lawn beyond. The grounds are befitting the "castle on the hill".
The 'wow' factor shows no let-up in a remodeled kitchen where the pièce de résistance is The La Cornue range, that sums it all by celebrating design with culinary style and taste. Vive la cuisine!
An octagonal informal dining space flanks the kitchen off the home’s sunny southeast corner accessible to outdoor grills and but steps from the heated garages and summer's lush gardens. The floors are heated and the windows have been replaced
The paver walkway through the wrought iron gate leads to a covered entrance into the kitchen. A lower stairway leads to an entrance into the lower level.
On a line from kitchen to the Dining Room is The Butler’s Pantry---the equivalent of nearly a full kitchen in most homes featuring 30 ft of counter-space, a baking station, entertainment sink, dishwasher and a wine cooler--an epicenter for grandness
The main floor powder room sits efficiently just inside the secondary front entrance outside the kitchen, nearby the Great Hall and at the base of the second stairway. Every bath in the fortress has been gutted and remodeled---each its own haven
Exquisite, sumptuous, heavenly; these are but a few words that justly describe an Owners’ Suite the first home’s baron could not have contemplated.
The entire ensuite---bedroom, bath, dressing area, comprises well over 600 sq ft. In keeping with the home’s craftmanship and materials, the bath area with separated sinks has been built out in black walnut, marble along with leaded glass built-ins
An original adjacent sitting room has been cannibalized, enabling the retrofit of an ensuite with all the accoutrements including a dressing room separate from the bath. The space includes (out of view) a make-up desk, table, and walk-in closet.
The daily reminder just outside the owners' suite: Art meets Design; meets craftmanship; Old world that’s out of this world and has few words to describe. (But---here for once, “awesome” applies!).
Awesomeness from another angle, viewed from the staircase landing. How long must this have taken to craft? The landing area alone can be a room unto itself for reading, contemplation, spiritual solace---a towering example of artistry!
...where like every other bath on this level, is faithful to the home's design but which would surely be approved more than a century ago by the first owner--and certainly his guests.
Amongst perhaps all the rooms in the home, the shared sun porch on the southwest corner of the second floor with its broad sightlines, suggests the original primacy of the lot over 100 years ago
In the case of this room, its classic design provides the canvas upon which to splash the latest of interior fashion, one of so many places where the owners’ attention to detail honors the authenticity with a refreshed look--the artistry persists
The northwest bedroom also has an ensuite full bath, plus a generous walk-in closet (all bedroom closets are generous, and most are walk-in). Additionally, almost all bedroom floors have been re-finished.
The adjoining ensuite bath is full--another example of the quality found throughout---whatever the modification or upgrade.
There are three ensuite baths on the second floor. The hall bath across from the south middle bedroom, this one too, has been completely redone.
The SE corner of the house repeats the turret theme, though no locked-up princess had it this nice. The hallway here is shared with another bedroom, full bath and a laundry room
There’s no let-up in quality within the Lower Level. Most of the homes in the era had ‘cellars’--some had basements, but few had foundations with look-out windows. Amenities flanking this space include a wine cellar, exercise room and outside access.
There are six bedrooms in total on the second floor, (one used as an office). Through the leaded glass French Door this one shares a south facing sun porch with the adjacent BR. It’s also a bedroom amongst three with an ensuite bath.
Accentuated by the unusual 'flying buttress' box beams adorning the tall ceilings, this in its day was the speak-easy beyond parallel with bountiful cellars, gaming and egress; today--a person cave that works for family and guest alike.
SPOILER ALERT: This is where Professor Plum ‘done-in’ Miss Scarlett with the Candlestick. The theory being that he came in through the unusually large for the era, look-out windows that offer a generous amount of south-side natural light
This climate-controlled wine cellar, convenient to all the social pathways, was added in ’08. The rack plus wine cooler stores roughly 500 bottles (if you can keep them).
A well placed second stairway services the home, running from the Lower Level to the second floor.
An outside stairwell leads into the Lower Level through this space, thoughtfully furnished with cubbies, a dog washing station and along which also exists a half bath, storage and a workshop. Lowry Hill is indeed a neighborhood made for walking
The home’s 3rd fl. is as comfortable as any other with its own HVAC source, kitchenette, full bath plus an office/desk set up, three sleeping areas plus a turret tower in which to hide-away---roughly 2600 sq ft in total
Banishment to the 3rd floor is no punishment. The internet works well, and the leathered-granite counter adorns cabinetry that houses a full suite of appliances including a multi-drawered refrigerator with plenty of ice and a dishwasher.
Every home should have a quiet/’time-out space. Medieval designers understood this too well, placing these rooms atop the turret tower. This 3rd floor space allows you to keep your head while vacating your mind
The third-floor spaces are large in scale—and so is the primary bedroom at 22 x 14. Two other sleeping rooms, having the accentuated charm of slanted ceilings, are perfectly comfortable
The third floor in fact offers three separate bedrooms. Two of them trade headroom for charm. All of them are quiet havens, though glimpses here and there of the city's tallest buildings can be seen
A Carriage House atop an oversized heated and plumbed double garage offers a 1000 sq ft one-bed apartment with a private entrance, full bath, kitchen and a sun deck that offers a full panorama view south & west. Another double garage sits adjacent.
The Carriage apartment is not a studio, boasting a pvt entrance, common areas that include a kitchen, informal eating nook/desk area plus a more formal Living Rm/Dining space. The heated garage beneath contributes to a year-round happy feel climate
The apartment's bedroom is generous, has ample closet space and is convenient to the full bath.
The unit's kitchen is fully appointed including an under-counter refrigerator/freezer.
The Carriage House apartment/s full bath---yet another
Lowry Hill was first platted in 1872. Mt Curve was carved along a ridgeline that offered sweeping views facing the nearby city core. One can imagine a carriage ride off to the undeveloped southwest to picnic around the lakes only a mile or so distant
The home dominates the site with a presence framed by its frontage on the street and particularly its unusually large side-lot. Even the lot to the rear is generous, private and useful. This image is taken from a patio that foots the back stairs.
The home’s orientation on the site reflects the necessity of the horse-drawn era. Few sites on Lowry Hill enabled a sweeping circular drive with a covered entrance. Yesteryear’s impression and convenience are no less appreciated today.
One can almost hear the sound of horses as they "clip-clop" to the covered entryway.
The curved stone wall, the entrance gates, the turrets and steep, ornate peaks of the roofline exude a sense of history and romance.
It's hard to imagine a more perfect setting for a summer soiree than in this gracious porch that spills out to the patio and lawn.
A Carriage House atop an oversized heated and plumbed double garage offers a 1000’ one-bed apartment with a private entrance, full bath, kitchen and a sun deck that offers a full panorama view south & west. Another double garage sits adjacent.
Main Floor: Note the open floor plan that blends one room into another.
Second Floor: Three of the bedrooms have ensuite bathrooms. There is a fourth bathroom across the hall from the 4th bedroom.Through the door by the Grand Stairway are the laundry room, two more bedrooms, a bath, and a stairway to the third floor.
The Lower Level has daylight windows and a high ceiling. There is an exterior door in the mudroom.
Third Floor: This floor is accessed from a separate stairway. It offers 3 more bedrooms, a flexible Turret Room and a Great Room by the kitchenette.
Carriage House Apartment that is accessible from the house via a tunnel staring in the lower level. There is also an outside stairway to the apartment.
Carriage House garage is just below the apartment.
Carriage House: The tunnel arrives at the lowest level of the Carriage House.
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